Apparatus for washing vegetable fibers for spinning.



E. NEMETHY.

. APPARATUS FOR WASHING VEGETABLE FIBERS FOR SP INNING. APPLICATIONFILED mums, 1907.

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APPARATUS FOR WASHING VEGETABLE FIBERs roe SPINNING.

Speeificationbf Letters Patentf LPatmatbd Sept. 21, 1909.

Application filed March as, 1907; Serial nblssdose To all whom 'it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, EMIL NfiME'rHY, a sub jeot of the King of Hungary,and resident of Arad. a small town in .Xustria-Hungary, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Washing VegetableFibers for Spinning, of which the following is aspecification.

For washing animal fiberssuch as wool and the like, ployed in which thefibers are ledin tubs or buckets beneath roses. These apparatus canhowever not be employed for washing vegetable fibers for spinning, asthe fibers in the tubs or buckets. would get too much entangled by theroses so that a spinning of the same would beimpossible. Now, in orderthat the vegetable fibers when being washed do not get entangled butremain perfectly straight and parallel, and further in order to reducethe fiberbundles while .main-. taining their parallel position to singlefibers, -the present invention provides, 1nstead of the tubs or buckets,long boxes and, insteadot' the roses, parallel shower-pipes to theseboxes which are however not as usual fitted with holes but at theirunderside with for spinning a longitudinal slot so that the fibers arenot met by many jets but by a single jetsimilar to the cutting edge of almifeparallela tothe direction of the fibers whereby a gooddisentanglement of lar e fiber bundles as well-as a thorough was ling ofthe fibers at a. permanent parallel position of the latter is effected.

The improved apparatus ,is shown in the accompanying drawmg.

Figures 1 and 1 are respectively a side and end elevation of the same,one of-the pipes connected with a source of steam supply, while Figs. 2and 3 show details, of the same.

apparatus are em-' washed. and reduced to single fibers.

Over two rollers 2 which are movably mounted on parallel axles l, theendless band 3 is led and fitted with a fixed sieve-boxes 4 withsieve-like bottoms 7, into which the 'fiberbundles are embedded.

row, shower-pipes 5 which at their unclerslde are providedwith alongitudinal slot 6, are

arranged so as to lie parallel to the axles-1 and-also tothe length ofthe fiber bundles which are for this purpose placed in this positioninto the sieve-boxes4. By the ef fect of the sharp water jets suppliedthrou h the pipes 5, the fiber bimdles are thorough y The bundles arethen conveyedto Wet-presses and from 'there into the drying chamber,upon which the fibers are su ciently pliant in order to be worked up;

Having fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent is An apparatus for washing vegetable fibers forspinning, comprising in combination, two inovably mounted rollers (2),an endless band (3) arranged over said two rollers, a series of longopen sieve-boxes (4) fixed on said endless band and designed toreceive-the raw fiber material, a series of shower-pipes 5 provided attheir underside with a longitu inal slot in such a way as to face withthe latter the upperrow of the fiber bundles in said sieve-boxes and tolie parallel thereto, for the purpose set forth.

, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

EMIL NEMETHY. Witnesses:

A. J. FALMY, CHARLES EowAnq ZAHM.

series of long open Above the single sieve-boxes 4 of the upper:

